"Before running for the US Senate, Christine O'Donnell dabbled in witchcraft. That may account for mounting evidence that her grasp on reality is fading. Ms O'Donnell has little executive experience but an impressive CV that claims that she has studied at the prestigious Claremont Graduate University, California, and at the University of Oxford. She has also indicated in a lawsuit that she once began a master's degree course at Princeton. Not one of these claims is true." (Times, 30 September) RD
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Would that indicate that her 'grasp on reality is fading' or expanding? After all, socialism itself is an effort to go beyond 'accepted' realities. So long as the real is not being discounted, we can call 'witchcraft', amongst others, an effort to see what else there is out there. I bet the critiques of science, in its early days, would have said the same thing as is being said here.
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